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WAND
Education Fund Board of Directors
May
2009
The Board is composed of women of various
ages and religious beliefs who come from a variety
of economic backgrounds and geographical locations.
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WAND
Education Fund Chair
Councilor
Charleta Tavares, OH
The first African-American woman to hold
a leadership position in the Ohio General
Assembly (Minority Whip; representing 22nd
House District for five and a half years),
Tavares has been a member of the Columbus
City Council since 1999. She has served
as Chief of the Children’s Protection
Section in the Ohio AG’s office, Associate
Director of the Public Children Services
Association of Ohio, and is now the Chair
of the City Council’s Health, Housing
and Human Services Committee.
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Edith Allen, MA
Edie Allen is an artist and activist with
years of experience organizing and recruiting
for WAND. She is president of the Colombe
Foundation, which supports peace organizations,
and also president of an artisans' cooperative
in Wellesley, Massachusetts. |
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Sierra Maire Campoli,
IN
Sierra grew up in rural Mishawaka, Indiana.
This past May she graduated with a BA in communications
from Saint Mary’s College Notre Dame,
Indiana. While at St. Mary’s, started
a STAND chapter and worked as community liaison
for “Peacemakers.” Sierra is currently
an account executive for WBYT radio station
B100 and a new board member. |
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Hon.
Mary Cathcart, ME
Mary Cathcart served three terms (1988-1994)
in the Maine House of Representatives and
four terms (1996-2004) as State Senator; where
she chaired the Joint Standing Committee on
Appropriations and Financial Affairs and the
Joint Select Committee on Research and Development.
She ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 1994
and was then appointed by former U.S. Senator
George J. Mitchell to chair the U.S. Commission
on Child and Family Welfare. After reaching
her term limit in the Maine Senate, Mary joined
the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center at
the University of Maine, where she is co-director
of Maine NEW Leadership, a nonpartisan program
designed to educate and inspire women college
students to become engaged politically. Mary
serves as a Delegate to, and is past chair
of, the New England Board of Higher Education,
and is on several nonprofit boards. She became
involved
with WAND in the early 1990's when she attended
her first WiLL conference. |
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Representative
Merika Coleman, AL
Merika was elected to the
Alabama House of Representatives in 2002.
Representative Coleman received her Bachelor
of Arts Degree in Mass Communication and her
Master of Public Administration Degree from
the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Representative
Coleman was a 2004 Fleming Fellow with the
Center for Policy Alternatives, a nonpartisan,
nonprofit organization working to strengthen
the capacity of "Citizen Legislators."
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Hon.
Joyce Elliott, AR
A State Representative who was termed out
in 2006, Ms. Elliott earned her bachelor's
degree from Southern Arkansas University and
her master's degree in education from Quachita
Baptist University. Ms. Elliott is a public
school teacher. She is a member of the board
of the Arkansas-American Federation of Teachers
and the College Board of Trustees. She also
is a member of the National Board for Professional
Teaching Standards.
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Rep. Jessia Farrar,
TX
In her fifth term as state representative
from northeast Houston, Rep. Farrar works
on issues such as domestic violence, access
to higher education, assistance for community-development
corporations, and economic development. In
1998, she began a mentoring program for promising
young women, called Latinas on the Rise. |
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Jean
Gordon, AR
Ms. Gordon has been an active member in
the peace, social justice, and civil rights
movements for many years. She chaired Arkansas’
Peace Links Board and Peace Center Boards
where she edited a bi-monthly newsletter
showing the effects of the military budget
on state residents.
She founded and chairs Arkansas WAND, and
recently received an Arkansas Peace &
Justice Heroes award from the OMNI Center
in Fayetteville. |
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Senator
Toni N. Harp, CT
Toni
is serving her eighth consecutive term representing
the 10th Senatorial District. Toni was awarded
citations by the National Association of
Social Workers, the Connecticut Association
for Human Services, the New Haven Chapter
of the National Association for the Advancement
of Colored People, and the New Haven Club
of the National Association of Negro Business
and Professional Women's Clubs, Incorporated.
She was also honored as one of New Haven
Business' 20 Noteworthy Women. |
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Linda
Kushner, RI
Linda Kushner, a former Rhode
Island state legislator, was president of
the Friends of Rochambeau Branch Library and
is a founding member of the Library Reform
Group. |
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June
Mathiowetz, MN
June currently works as the Sustainability
Project Coordinator with the City of Minneapolis.
She completed her masters' degree in Public
Policy at the University of Minnesota and
has long standing interests in foreign policy,
the environment and development of democracy.
June's peace activism has roots with the
Minneapolis-based Women Against Military
Madness and the people of Mexico and Ecuador
who profoundly shaped her world view by
sharing their lives and stories with her
during her undergraduate years. |
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Betsy Rivard, GA
Betsy has been active in Atlanta WAND
for about 16 years, serving on the board for
at least eight years. Her chemistry background
and Oak Ridge, TN past (her father worked
for the Atomic Energy Commission) made her
concerned about the nuclear issue (weapons
and power). Betsy also serves on the boards
of the UN Association of the USA, Nuke Watch
South, Georgians for Gun Safety, and the Chattooga
Conservatory. |
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Sayre Sheldon, MA
A founding member of WAND and President Emerita
of the National WAND Board, Sayre has been
a long time political and social activist.
She is a college professor of literature and
an author of several plays and articles about
women's issues and peace issues. She edited
the anthology Her War Story: 20th Century
Women Write About War, published in 1999
by Southern Illinois University Press. She
represents WAND as an NGO at the United Nations. |
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Jessica Wilbanks,
TX
Jessica is an M.F.A. candidate in fiction
at the University of Houston and a Senior
Consultant for Faithful Security: the National
Religious Partnership on the Nuclear Weapons
Danger, an organization she helped to found.
Faithful Security is a national coalition
of religious organizations, clergy, and laity
committed to taking action to reduce and eliminate
nuclear weapons. Jessica's previous projects
include developing a national coalition of
students speaking out to protect Social Security
and working as an organizer with MoveOn PAC
during the 2004 presidential elections. |
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